Sentences with phrase «more good school places»

Opportunity areas are not simply about addressing the need for more good school places in all parts of the country.

Nick Gibb, England's School Standards Minister, described the results as a «useful insight» and showed the need to «make more good school places available» in grammar schools.

Free schools are providing more good school places in more parts of the country.

Yet, the Government has not demonstrated that the creation of grammar schools will lead to more good school places overall.

Pressed by Marr to give a «concrete example of what is going to change» as part of the new shared society, Greening said: «We've already set out that we want more good school places wherever children are in the country.

Today's approvals build on the government's strong record in creating more good school places.

«That's why our consultation on creating more good school places in more parts of the country includes proposals to scrap the ban on new grammar schools — on the strict condition they improve the education of other pupils in the system — as well as harnessing the expertise and resources of our universities, and our independent and faith schools.»

It is the vacuousness of the statement «We've already set out that we want more good school places wherever children are in the country» before Greening gets to her solution which worries me.

«But we know there is more to do, and that's precisely why we have set out plans to make more good school places available, to more parents, in more parts of the country - including scrapping the ban on new grammar school places, and harnessing the resources and expertise of universities, independent and faith schools.»

«That doesn't just mean building more good school places; it means teaching children what they need to know to make something of themselves.»

Gibb (pictured right) added: «We have set out plans to make more good school places available, to more parents in more parts of the country.

«That means more good school places and giving people the chance to learn and upskill throughout their lives with high - quality degrees, apprenticeships and other technical and vocational qualifications.»

A three - month consultation has opened on the DfE website over the plans to create more good school places.

The research, which is published with the Sutton Trust's response to the government's consultation on providing more good school places, raises serious concerns about using grammar schools in their current form as a vehicle for social mobility.

«And by investing # 280m over the next two years to target resources at the schools most in need to improve school performance and deliver more good school places.»

Education Secretary Michael Gove argues that allowing good schools to expand will create more good school places, and so increase choice.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «Our proposals are about creating more choice, with more good school places for more parents in more parts of the country.

«[Free schools] are creating more good school places for our children.

This funding will transform the condition of school buildings and help our best schools to expand, creating more good school places for families and raising standards for pupils.

«We are raising standards across the country so that every child can go to a good school where they are taught the knowledge and skills they need for future success and we're investing # 5.8 billion to create even more good school places.

Education secretary Justine Greening is calling for closer working between independent and state schools to create more good school places.

«The proposals we are putting forward go considerably further than some of the ideas the green paper suggested and by helping create more good school places, both in state and independent schools, we would be helping to expand real social mobility in this country.»

The proposal comes as part of the ISC's response to the «Schools that work for everyone» green paper, which asked independent schools what they can do to «support more good school places and help children of all backgrounds to succeed».

Whilst there, she co-authored the report, More Good School Places, which was the first to recommend a «Pupil Premium» of # 6000 extra funding for each disadvantaged child in the country's state schools.

Not exact matches

The management professor - turned - dean aggressively raised standards for faculty and put in place more competitive packages to retain the school's best professors and recruit better talent.

But anecdotally, he says, some schools have reported seeing bumps in interest after placing well in one or more of the rankings.

Ironically, this newsworthy curriculum evidently teaches a good deal less about etiquette than we learned back at Margaret M. Amidon Elementary School in the «60s, but that is still a good deal more than children learn in most places.

[5] If a theological school wants to understand God more truly, if truth is really the issue, surely it would be better to focus study on the foundations that justify our getting involved in a congregation in the first place.

I wondered when we would know better how to help children more widely in schools and homes to understand their feelings, and when we would be able to help parents understand theirs, so that the boys and girls now growing up might know not only about tanks and bullets but about the most powerful of all weapons for both good and evil — the human feelings that propel us, if we do not understand them, into hating in place of loving, into killing instead of creation.

For although every college football fan will tell you that his school's program is special, that «it's about more than just football here,» Marshall may well be the only place where this is true.

What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect

For kids who are going to be first - timers for kindergarten, first grade, middle school or even high school, this can help them feel more comfortable with the new place and get a better idea of where to go once they're there.

Kids who come to school with the above conditions in place at home learn better and take more joy in their learning.

But placing requirements on the meals» contents without committing to the provision of a Nutrition Education programs which reaches well beyond the school setting out into the community will do nothing more than make for all that much more very nutritious, very expensive garbage.

«They help make the school run more smoothly and make it a better place for the kids.

On the other hand, families with authoritarian or permissive parenting tend to have children who do less well in school, have lower self - efficacy, less self - control, and lower self - esteem — placing these children more at risk when dealing with life's adversities.

Selective mutism (SM), formerly called elective mutism, is best understood as a childhood anxiety disorder characterized by a child or adolescent's inability to speak in one or more social settings (e.g., at school, in public places, with adults) despite being able to speak comfortably in other settings (e.g., at home with family).

As I said earlier, the society expects more of the government: citizens expect them to deal with the pollution in the cities, they expect them to put in place a better and proper health service, they expect pensions, [and] they expect their children to have reasonable schools to go to.

«Look at the free schools and academies that are bringing in diverse providers to create more excellent school places and getting some of the best results at GCSE.

«Joining 18 other states as finalists for more federal aid is good news, but it won't overshadow the facts that taxes and spending will be going up even more, school property tax bills are being prepared without a state budget in place, and the budget will soon be the latest in history.»

We'll get by the character stuff - just show us how you are going to make New York State a better place, where people can go to parks without worry of shut down, where schools will have quality teachers and performance, where roads are taken care of, where bridges don't collapse, where state police do police and are not used to go on witch hunts, where budgets wont be made by more hidden fees and regressive taxes, and the list goes on.

Even as they promised more help for parents, both de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña reiterated Tuesday that they felt the city's public school system still remained the best place for most special needs students.

Any kind of educational context where international scientists are present and people have more time to talk — summer schools, seminars, or workshops, for example — are good places to make contact with potential mentors abroad, Žagrović says.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

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Enrolled at the Shaffer Conservatory, the best music school in the country, Neyman is recruited by the infamous conductor Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) to join his band there and so begins Chazelle's tale of two men who want nothing more than to achieve that higher place of artistry that few are able of accomplishing, something which sends both on a violent, aggressive and unrelenting journey in the hopes of reaching it.

The elements are in place for an old - school gothic shocker in the finest Hammer tradition — but «Crimson Peak» feels more like something Tim Burton might cook up, and not in a good way.

As such, decisions to «give» teachers more devices tend to originate from the wrong starting place; teachers should be designing their classrooms and schools and then discussing, with leaders and technologists, what devices can best support that design.

Parliamentary under secretary of state for the school system, Lord Nash, commented: «The 52 new schools will provide much - needed places and encourage innovation, driving up standards and ensuring even more parents have the choice of a good school place for their child.»

A Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said: «Pupils are already benefiting hugely from the academies programme and thanks to our reforms more of them than ever before are going to good or outstanding schools, meaning more parents can access a good school place for their children.